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Last Summary Update: 06-19-2024

Vote For The Tiger and Raising Worms
Airdate: Wednesday - June 19, 1968

WOR Show
Original Airing

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First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Singing. . . And now for the next fotry-five minutes. . .

Show Description

"45 minutes to unwind" Voting for the Esso tiger Randy in the Air Force stationed in Burma. One night a tiger gets into the transmitter shack. Letters form listeners re. voting for the tiger Driving along route 206 stops by a stand where a kid is selling worms. He asks the kid how he gets the worms. "By digging them stupid" Shep tells about how at the age of 10 he developed a method for raising worms using an old Ford spark coil.

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Comments

• [Commercials cut]

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 18:35	Speaking of in bad tiger, this is WOR right here in the heart of the big mire and the big swamp of AM radio. Boy, they talk about television being a wasteland - Holy Smokes!

Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
•	No Commercials or Commercials Cut

Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 15:57	St Louis Blues

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
•	None Mentioned

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Jews Harp

Rating

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	General Topics		Worms
•	General Topics		Kid Stories
•	General Topics		New Jersey

Photos:

May 22, 1968
1968 Newspaper Ad

Record: 833 / ID: 19680619W0833

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

	Date	Title
	June 19, 1968 Recno: 833	Vote For The Tiger and Raising Worms	Original Airing

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Dustbin of History	June 19, 2024

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Found in the following set(s)

Set Name	Show #	Media
1968 Audio CD Set	CD 1b	Audio CD

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Database Record Status

Database ID #:	19680619W0833	Sponsors up to date:	Yes
Record Created:		Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	06-19-2024	Station ID up to date:	Yes
Show Redated From: See Dating Notes		Engineers up to date:	Yes
Music up to date:	Yes	Instruments up to date:	Yes
Description up to date:	Yes

Known Recordees

Gregg Motyka

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Replay Date

June 19, 2024

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Schmidco Sets - 1 found

Set Name	Show #	Media	File Name	Source
1968 Audio CD Set	CD 1b	Audio CD	0 Running Time: 0

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3 Known copies from various Sources and Lists (Up to date)

	Recordee			¹ Shortened Theme: 55 seconds ² Audibly Dated: By recordee or other ³ Modified Theme: Theme added by Gary Hines ⁴ Syndicated Intro: Intro broadcast as part of Synd Shows
	This copy used for summary time references		Inventory File Name coding explained

Source Name	Information
Gregg Motyka Running Time: 39:09 Recordee: 54 - Gregg Motyka	Inventory Name: 1968 06 19_W0833_054 Vote For the Tiger - Raising Worms.mp3 Station: WOR Comments: From reel to reel
Schmidco	NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source set: 1968 Audio CD Set Source ref number: CD-1b Station: WOR
Dustbin of History Running Time: 48:45 Recordee: 54 - Gregg Motyka	Inventory Name: 1968 06 19_W0833_552-054_D2024-06-19 Vote for the tiger - raising worms.mp3 Station: WBAI Comments: Dustbin of History recording

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975